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'Positive news'
Record number of
suckers recovered. Biologists find 732 juvenile suckers near
A Canal screen
 Herald
and News by Lacey Jarrell 12/18/15
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This juvenile sucker is in the rarest life-stage, between 2 and
4 years old. Several agencies are working to increase endangered
Lost River and shortnose sucker populations. Both species were
give protections under the Endangered Species Act in 1988.
A
record number of juvenile Lost River and shortnose suckers
were recovered from the headwaters of the A Canal earlier
this year.
According to a news release, biologists with the Bureau of
Reclamation (BOR) found the largest number of juvenile Lost
River and shortnose suckers since fish salvage operations
began in the Klamath Project in the late 1990s.
In
October, after the A Canal headworks were shut, biologists
found 732 juvenile Lost River and shortnose suckers in a bay
upstream of the canal’s fish screen.
Since
the screen was installed in 2003, tallies have ranged from
12 to 250 suckers per year, the release said.
Roughly 5 percent of this year’s salvaged suckers are
believed to be at least 2 years old, the rarest juvenile
sucker age class in Upper Klamath Lake, the release said.
“We
were pleased to see the 2-year-old suckers,” said BOR
Klamath Basin Area Manager Therese O’Rourke Bradford.
“Although it’s still a dire situation for sucker
populations, it’s the first positive news regarding the
suckers in a long time.”
The
suckers were tagged and transported to the eastern shore of
Upper Klamath Lake, near Hagelstein Park.
Lost
River and shortnose suckers were listed as endangered by the
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in 1988.
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